Wisconsin · Private foundation
Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $449k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $53,678
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $449k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $459k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $391k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $480k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $448k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $419k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $439k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $429k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc | $317,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Nourish Farms Inc | $290,000 | 8 | 11% |
| A Million Dreamz Inc | $250,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Lakeland University | $242,392 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Sheboygan County Inc | $219,027 | 8 | 2% |
| Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Sheboygan Area School District | $160,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc | $152,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Reins Inc | $112,500 | 7 | 10% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Sheboygan County Inc | $92,500 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Garton Family Foundation · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · The Zieve Foundation · Catharine B Stayer Family Foundation Inc · Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc
How this is measured
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About Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc give?
- Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc reported 53 grants totaling $449,128 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Youth Development (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc ($318k), Nourish Farms Inc ($290k), A Million Dreamz Inc ($250k).
- Does Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc based?
- Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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